81 Quotes by Laura Kasischke

There, tonight. The eternity of that. Swan logic. Swan history.

Hidden in the works of a mysterious clock are her many deaths, and yet the whole world is piled up before her on a banquet table again today. The timer, broken.

And, for the first few months after her surgeries, Holly had felt, horribly, as if she'd been turned into a machine, an unkillable robot. She had terrible dreams in which she was searching for her body parts on shelves lined with thousands of other body parts, floating in thousands of jars. In the dreams, Holly was convinced that her soul had been located in one of those body parts, and now her soul was trapped for eternity in formaldehyde and glass.

as if wewere actual human beingsor completely normal people

So we found ourselves in an ancient place, the veryair around us bound by chains.

We would never be together in this life again.

Being female was so hard. Always having to rearrange yourself, to pluck yourself and whittle yourself and deprive yourself and inspect yourself in order to feel comfortable in this world.

and the stones, bewitched, can see:The lost hours and into the past.

They told us it was a dance, a party, a pageant, so we ran laughing together straight into the disaster.